Control Court 5 of La Guaira decreed deprivation of liberty against Yasmin Esterbina Prieto Paduaniz (54), allegedly involved in the murder of her three grandchildren aged 5, 8 (girls) and 7 (boy) years old, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The events occurred on January 12, 2019 in an apartment located in the 10 de Marzo sector, Carlos Soublette parish, La Guaira state. Since that day, Yasmin, nicknamed La Negra “disappeared in a strange way after she found out about the death of her grandchildren,” refers to sentence 297 of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.
That sentence describes that the three children died of mechanical suffocation by submersion. Two of the three bodies were found inside a pipe thrown in a room of the apartment where two uncles took care of them, since the mother is imprisoned in the Aragua Judicial Confinement Center.
On September 2, Interpol San José, Costa Rica, informed the Venezuelan authorities that alias La Negra was arrested in that Central American nation. From there, the Public Ministry activated the extradition process, which was agreed on October 24, according to sentence 297.
In response to this request from the country’s High Court, Costa Rica sent the woman to Venezuela, who was received last Friday at the Simón Bolívar International Airport by Cicpc agents.
The scientific police officials handed the woman over to the president of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of La Guaira, Jaime Velásquez, who ordered the corresponding presentation hearing to be held before the Fifth Control Court. The Prosecutor’s Office accused him of intentional homicide qualified with treachery for futile and ignoble reasons. They ordered her to be confined in the National Institute for Women’s Guidance (Inof).
